Random set of the day: Baby Brachiosaurus
Posted by Huwbot,
Today's random set is 7002 Baby Brachiosaurus, released during 2001. It's one of 12 Dinosaurs sets produced that year. It contains 31 pieces, and its retail price was US$3/£2.99.
It's owned by 991 Brickset members. If you want to add it to your collection you might find it for sale at BrickLink or eBay.
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"kill me"
I know people are going to say it's ugly or whatever, but I genuinely loved the Dinosaurs line from 2001, and that love extended to every set of the theme. You could give the full sized Brachiosaurus 6719 offspring, it was fun.
Oh dear. That is the blockiest body I have ever seen.
The Dinosaur line was fantastic as whole. I’m hoping they bring it back in one form or another.
@Harmonious_Building:
I was thinking basically the same thing as the page was loading. It’s that freaky expression on the head that does it.
Oh, heavens! This doesn’t go with anything.
Hey, one part here is old Jabba’s tail from 2003.
That's the saddest looking dinosaur I've ever seen.
@LuvsLEGO_Cool_J:
This is an offshoot of the short lived theme that originated that whole tail system.
@RaiderOfTheLostBrick said:
"That's the saddest looking dinosaur I've ever seen."
I dunno, It looks pretty happy to me.
Sand green... is not as good as trans neon green. And then change the greys to Black and white. Now we are talking.
This was the only Dinosaur set I got as a kid. It was cool enough, but not as cool as the larger ones.
Well before the era of mega-specialization in animal part design (horses, you say? Well, there's an exception to every rule...). With the exception of the head, all of those pieces are eminently re-usable in other builds. Very much in keeping with LEGO set designs of the era. (And yes, at this scale with the parts available, it's not a pretty build--also very much in keeping with the LEGO set designs of the era.)
Today's dinosaurs from the Jurassic World theme are worlds apart from a display perspective, and they look fantastic, but then again they will always be JW dinosaurs; they don't even have as much re-usability as, say, Galidor...you decide which is more befitting of a building-block toy...
Just sayin'.
oh my... you have not aged well...
I think what makes these dinos so weird is their heads and tails and often arms are custom molds but the bodies are traditional system bricks. If they were all brick built like a Creator set or all custom molds like Smaug they'd look much better.
One thing I'll give this line credit is having a mosasaurs set. Come on LEGO give us an update!
Hmm...methinks Hammond needs more mosquitoes...:)
Are those pants, or a special dino diaper? ‘Cause he’s a baby?
I actually have some of these. Great parts in great colours.
I have this!!! And the big one :)
Definitely didn't skip leg day
Much as I loved the baby dino sets, the head and tail do not go well with the main body. Interesting comparing this to the baby dinosaurs Lego makes nowadays.
There were sloppy themes as well as great ones. It's okey not to like everything Lego does.
@MCLegoboy said:
"I know people are going to say it's ugly or whatever, but I genuinely loved the Dinosaurs line from 2001, and that love extended to every set of the theme. You could give the full sized Brachiosaurus 6719 offspring, it was fun."
I did too.
It was Lego's first real attempt at dinosaurs, and I'll always be grateful for them, for this line.
I’m beginning to understand why the dinosaurs became extinct…
Thanks to the intern....
The adult dino's from this serie were great, the baby's sadly not.
It's good to see lego improved their builds witch combined bricks with "custom molds" after this (except viking).
Well you need to start somewhere right? :D Not my favorite, but I love to see how it changed over the years. I just build one of the Lego Movie 2 sets yesterday, I personally don’t like that the dino don’t look like Lego.
I have to say that this looks kind of cute, albeit blocky, and it was a valiant attempt at building dinosaurs without many specialised molds
Looks like it got teleported into a rock.
This set is a dinosaur in EVERY way that counts!!
These were widely available in nearly all retail stores (standard, grocery, pharmacy, convenience shops...) and later inevitably clearance priced. Found many between $1-3 dollars and always said "I can use more grey, dark grey, and sand green slopes".
I really wish LEGO would still sell Dinosaurs separately on their own instead of placing them only in super expensive crappy sets with unremarkable builds, that let's face it, you only buy for the dinosaurs to begin with.
I reckon you could actually pull off brick built dinos at that scale (with maybe a head mould) these days. We've got a much wider colour and small part selection. The concept has potential, but this set certainly didn't fulfill it.
@GSR_MataNui:
They also made a brontosaurus, and sand-green flippers, which allowed you to make Nessie.
@MeisterDad:
The head and tail have been finished, but the rest is only roughed in by the sculptor.
@Zordboy:
Studios had a T-Rex in 2000, which is the same year Dino Island came out. They had this beat by a year.
@Slave2lego:
It’s a dance move?
This set benefits a lot for me from being released before I took my childhood collection apart: anything from back then gets a bit of a shine to it, even if--at the time, and objectively--they're blocky and arguably juniorised. The full adult dinosaurs in this line were fantastic, but the smaller brickbuilt ones are a bit more "proof of concept" than finished product.
This came out at the start of my dark age. I think I picked a good time to take a break from Lego.
I bought all four of them from a super market store. These were my first sets with drak grey, sand green and ~blue. But too few of each colour to do anything else...
The combination of plain bricks and specialised animal pieces was then strange to me. But these baby dinosaurs appeared much more LEGO-ish than their adult counterparts (6719 - 6722)
Looks more like a diplodocus. Neck should be a bit more vertical for a brachiosaurus, surely
@Brickalili said:
"Looks more like a diplodocus. Neck should be a bit more vertical for a brachiosaurus, surely"
Exactly, but I love these creatures specially the Mossasaur.
Seems like it swallowed a spider droid
This is adorable.
I agree with @oldfan that the rebuildability is nice, and we've become spoiled with specialized pieces.
Also: Get off my lawn
I came out of my dark ages in 2002, while this line was still around, and got all four of the large sets, but none of these small ones. I wish I had; it seems like it would have been so easy to collect the whole line. I appreciate the color palette.
@MCLegoboy said:
"I know people are going to say it's ugly or whatever, but I genuinely loved the Dinosaurs line from 2001, and that love extended to every set of the theme. You could give the full sized Brachiosaurus 6719 offspring, it was fun."
Fully agree in all points.